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artists In the line of fashion pro
ducers? Mr. McQuire is all wrong in his ar
ticle and if fashions will make people
spend more money, I say bring on the
fashions, and allow Mr. McQuire to
take a trip to Podunk, where they
wear overalls and flannel shirts 12
months a year. J. N. S.
NATURE MATING. On June 3, in
the News, there was a writeup on the
subject of paroles for wife deserters.
It dealt with the conditions in Detroit,
Mich., for last year. For that large
city there were 359, and for these
' hard times I do not believe it to be
very large.
The report was fair enough to blame
in a measure the wives as well as the
erring husbands. Of the list of de
serters 144 were native-born Amer
icans and Canadians, Germans and
Austrians were next on the list, but
way down at the bottom was one
lone Scotchman.
Why he left the report does not
say. It might have been Peoria whis.
key, Canadian bourbon or old-fashioned
Scotch whiskey. But is it not
remarkable how few Scotchmen de
sert their wives? Scotties are cer
tainly plentiful in Detroit. At least,
I know they are across the river in
Windsor. Did any of your experts
ever study how the Scotch couples
mate? They do not consult Helen
Oldfield, who has never tried mar-
riage herself. Neither do they advise
"with Beatrice Fairfax or Ella-Wheeler
Wilcox. The courtships of the Scotch
are short and sweet affairs, generally,
in tune with nature, and not "accord-
. ing to Hoyle."
You may study the mating of birds,
or even swans, and you will find a
similarity. Not cousin marriages;
not "father and mother wanted us
to" marriages; not property mar
riages or big income marriages. No !
When the Scottie coos his lassie his
soul is raised to the heavens and
stays there because it is in tune with
that souL
Let us study, nature mating more
let us get back to cause and effect
and see if we can't keep out of the
divorce . courts more than we do.
Allen Steven, 2538 N. California Av.
WHAT GOVERNMENT WILL BE
IN FUTURE. To any one who reads
the signs of the times it is quite evi
dent that we are approaching a cycle
in the history of the world where the
forms of society are to be recast
To state It more correctly, civiliza
tion, so-called, has not yet arrived at
that stage of social evolution where
society is to take on a scientific
form; one that satisfies, at least to
some extent, the demands of reason
and the more developed sense of jus
tice which comes with the develop
ment of human Intelligence and con
sequent scientific progress. . There
are many indexes now pointing to the
fact that human nature has evolved
sufficiently so as to make social re
construction necessary, and govern
ment must very soon take on the
form of social service instead of be
ing a factor of social exploitation on
behalf of the ruling class,, as it has
been so far in history.
There are already notable ex
amples throughout the world that
government is becoming scientific
and is making a beginning at its new
aim of trying to make people happy
instead of letting them drift in
chaotic misery. This results from
the newly-discovered fact that justice
in the social order of things is just as
necessary and binding to the health
and life of society as the law of
gravitation is in the world of masses.
So just as in order to build a house
intelligently an architect has to first
make blue prints of the design and
study well the building details, so it
is time. that we should start discussing-
what government in the future
will be and should be. I would like
tb hear what the other editors of The
Open Forum? have to say on this ques
tion. It is refreshing, to read these
editorials because they are unfettered.
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